| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | I left the party because I was tired |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | I was tired and (so) I left the party |
| Definition | the semantic relation between two events where one event causes the other. Example: I left the party because I was tired is a figure--ground construal of the simultaneous relation in an adverbial clause construction, and I was tired and (so) I left the party is a complex figure construal of the relation in a coordinate clause construction. In the figure--ground construal, the causing event (the protasis; Section 17.3.2) is construed as the ground, and expressed in the adverbial dependent clause. Causal relations also occur in conditional, concessive, concessive conditional, and comparative conditional constructions. Causal relations are divided into content, epistemic, and speech act relations. (Sections 15.3.1, 17.2.1, 17.3.2) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 15.3.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.2.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 17.3.2 |
| Function of | causal construction |
| Subtype of | event relation |
The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).
Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).
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